公开(公告)号：US06801865B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-05

申请号：US10103659

申请日：2002-03-21

申请人： Alan M. Gilgenbach ,  Richard Armbrust ,  Daniel J. Collins ,  James P. Conigliaro ,  Jeffery Zingsheim ,  Timothy A. Beck ,  Usha H. Venkatesh ,  Andrew H. Aiken ,  Kenneth G. Dunahee

发明人： Alan M. Gilgenbach ,  Richard Armbrust ,  Daniel J. Collins ,  James P. Conigliaro ,  Jeffery Zingsheim ,  Timothy A. Beck ,  Usha H. Venkatesh ,  Andrew H. Aiken ,  Kenneth G. Dunahee

IPC分类号： G06F1132

CPC分类号： H04L67/26 ,  H04B3/546 ,  H04B2203/5433 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/32 ,  H04L67/34 ,  H04L69/329

摘要： A commodity-meter management system including commodity meters (e.g., electrical energy meters, gas meters, and/or water meters), one or more servers, and a communications application to communicate between the meters and the servers. The meters are connected to the servers via communication mediums. The communications application can communicate bi-directionally in real-time between the meters and the servers via the communication mediums. The communications application can determine the actual configuration parameters according to which the meter is operating at any given time. In order to detect theft of a commodity, the communications application can compare the actual configuration parameters to default configuration parameters. If the actual and default configuration parameters are not equal, substantially equal, or within a predetermined threshold, the communications application indicates that a tamper event has occurred.

摘要翻译： 包括商品米（例如电能表，燃气表和/或水表）的商品计量管理系统，一个或多个服务器以及在仪表和服务器之间进行通信的通信应用。 仪表通过通信介质连接到服务器。 通信应用可以通过通信介质在仪表和服务器之间实时地双向通信。 通信应用程序可以根据仪表在任何给定时间运行的实际配置参数来确定。 为了检测商品的盗窃，通信应用程序可以将实际配置参数与默认配置参数进行比较。 如果实际和默认配置参数不相等，基本上等于或在预定阈值内，则通信应用指示已经发生了篡改事件。